Animated Movies That Haven’t Aged Well

Sometimes things age. Here are animated movies that haven’t really aged well. Keep in mind this doesn’t mean the movie is bad. I like some of these movies on the list. But they haven’t really aged well.
The Top Ten
1 Felix the Cat: The Movie

Every single aspect of this movie has instantly aged like milk, from the frightening CGI head in the opening scene to the shoddy hand-drawn animation of the movie itself to the fact that the main character maniacally laughs at an innocent corpse like a deranged serial killer that belongs exclusively in a mental hospital.

Should've been made in the late 90s instead of the 80s. Maybe we'd get better animation, music, writing, and character development had that been the case.

Even a diabetes diagnosis would be a more pleasant sensory experience than sitting through this god awful abomination of a movie!

2 Ralph Breaks the Internet

The Spider-Verse movies are destined to age like a fine wine (both in terms of the animation and the content of their storytelling) whereas Ralph Breaks the Internet has already aged like weeks-old milk in those categories.

Colleen Ballinger shows up at one point, which tells you everything you need to know about how timeless and TOTALLY not horrendously dated this movie really is.

Trollsworldtour Fan2001 is an absolute fool for thinking that this cinematic abomination is any better than Spider-Verse.

3 Dinosaur

Yeah this aged really badly for being from the year 2000 even.

4 Dumbo

The overly racist roustabouts and the heavily budgeted animation really don't do this movie many favors in hindsight.

This movie's title should be used as a slur referring to people who unironically use the word "woke" on a regular basis.

5 The Aristocats
6 Chicken Little

Came out after Shrek 2 and The Incredibles yet it looks more like it came out around the same time as the first Toy Story.

7 Fun and Fancy Free

One of the closest things Disney has ever given us to Hop.

About as timeless as a Rebecca Black music video.

8 Oliver and Company
9 Rock-a-Doodle

The blue screen effects near the end have aged like milk and stick out like a sore thumb.

Quite possibly the least timeless film Don Bluth has ever directed.

10 Happy Feet

Should've given that Oscar to Monster House or Cars instead of this sorry excuse for a movie.

The Contenders
11 The Black Cauldron
12 The King and I
13 The Polar Express

Thanks to the rendering, the characters look more like blurry holographic projections than actual humans.

14 Peter Pan

Could have very easily been one of Disney's most timeless classics had it not been for the offensive indigenous stereotypes or the casual misogyny in the film's dialogue.

At least the kids didn't explore Cannibal Cove. The movie would've aged even more poorly if they did.

15 Pocahontas
16 Shark Tale

One of the sharks should've been played by Chris Rock.

17 Melody Time
18 Gumby: The Movie

Came out smack dab in the middle of the 90s yet looks more like it came out in the early 80s at the latest.

Even Kathy Griffin has aged a lot better than the animation in this movie!

19 Jetsons: The Movie

They replaced Judy's regular voice actress (alive and well at the time) with Tiffany. "Who?" Exactly.

Okay, Tiffany Darwish, who went solely by her first name, was a big pop star in the '80s. Her popularity was already starting to fade by the time this movie hit theaters.

Somehow even more dated than the show it was based on.

20 The Lorax

Everything about this movie screams early 2010s.

The pop soundtrack is so cringe.

21 Charlotte’s Web
22 Animal Farm
23 Hoodwinked

I mean I like this movie, but wow the animation is so outdated for 2006, and not in a good way.

24 A Bug's Life

Yeah I can see that for being the 2nd of the Pixar lineup it hasn't aged that well of those computer made films for 1998, but hey I'll watch a movie with dated outlook unlike its video game tie in.

25 The Magic Voyage

Every movie that paints Columbus in a good light is destined to almost instantly age like milk.

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